Subspecies
Original
description
Synonyms
Aranea cinerea Panzer, 1793 (nec Fabricius,
1777) (junior homonym)
Tegenaria cinerea
(Panzer, 1793)
Cicurina
cinerea (Panzer, 1793)
Drassus
cinereus (Panzer, 1793)
Aranea
cicurea Fabricius, 1793
Tegenaria cicurea
(Fabricius, 1793)
Philoica
cicurea (Fabricius, 1793)
Cicurina
cicurea (Fabricius, 1793)
Cicurina
cicur (Fabricius, 1793) (unjustified emendation;
rejected here)
Cicurina pellucida Simon, 1875
This species was originally described as Aranea
cinerea, but this is a junior homonym of a
species described earlier by Fabricius.
Fabricius recognized this homonymy and
redescribed this species under the name Aranea
cicurea. Subsequent authors argued that the name
"cicurea" is a wrong latin form and must be
emended to "cicur". I do not follow this notion
here. The latin word "cicur" stems from the
greek word "cecuros" which itself traces from
the ancient indian language. It means "tame,
domesticated" and has been used in the Latin
language as a latinized adjective of the
"i"-declination (nominative singular: cicur,
genitive singular: cicuris). The genus of the
genus name Cicurina is feminine; thus the
correct form of the adjective cicur would be
"cicuris", not "cicur" which is the male form.
Thus, if the original spelling "cicurea" is to
be corrected, then "cicur" is wrong as well.
Instead of correcting the spelling again, I
choose to retain the original spelling. I
consider it as a noun in aposition.
Identification
Distribution
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